Artist Birthday: Juan Sánchez Cotán
Juan Sánchez Cotán was a Spanish Baroque painter who helped popularize the still life genre in Spanish Baroque painting. Spanish Renaissance and Baroque art were greatly influenced by th ...
Read MoreJuan Sánchez Cotán was a Spanish Baroque painter who helped popularize the still life genre in Spanish Baroque painting. Spanish Renaissance and Baroque art were greatly influenced by th ...
Read MoreConrad Marca-Relli was part of the “first generation” of Abstract Expressionism, along with Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. His artistic vision, however, was uniquely apart from eit ...
Read MoreAlthough little is known about her upbringing or training, Peeters was one of a growing number of women artists who were widely acclaimed as professional artists. She was also a pioneer in the relativ ...
Read MoreWols was a major figure in the School of Paris that developed after World War I (1914–1918). He was a pioneering artist in Lyrical Abstraction, and was a major influence on the Tachisme movement ...
Read MoreErastus Salisbury Field was an essentially self-taught painter who produced portraits, landscapes, and history subjects in his long career. He was one of the most successful of the great early America ...
Read MoreMangold is very fond of the trees that were on her country property and they became frequent subjects of her paintings. She would definitely approve of National Love a Tree Day, which encourages every ...
Read MoreThomas Gainsborough’s art was the epitome of the elegant, sophisticated and generally low-key Rococo style that characterized late 1700s British art. It was a major contrast to the flamboyant, o ...
Read MoreYnez Johnston’s unique style blends modernism and ancient art forms from her travels to Italy, Mexico, India and Nepal. Johnston also created three dimensional pieces in collaboration with her h ...
Read MoreThe Photorealism movement, which evolved during the late 1960s as a counterpoint to the pervasive Minimalism, Conceptualism, and abstraction in American art, blossomed fully during the 1970s. Into the ...
Read MoreThe iris is a beautiful flower that was first planted in the United States in Virginia in the 1600s. The flower started being commercially imported around 1869. The iris is the symbol for the city of ...
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